Statistics for 16th Century A-Z

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Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	1500s	Queen Mary of England gains this pejorative nickname	{Bloody} Mary	94%
J	1517	This holy city falls to the Ottoman empire	Jerusalem	94%
I	1547	This fearsome monarch becomes the first tsar of all Russia	Ivan the Terrible	91%
S	1564	This playwright is born in Stratford-upon-Avon	William Shakespeare	91%
G	1582	The pope introduces this calendar which is still used today	{Gregorian} Calendar	89%
L	1517	This German monk posts his 95 Theses	Martin Luther	89%
V	1530	This musical instrument is invented in Italy	Violin	89%
D	1504	Michelangelo finishes this sculpture	David	88%
O	1598	This type of musical performance occurs for the first time, in Florence	Opera	88%
A	1541	Francisco de Orellana encounters and explores this river	Amazon River	87%
P	1553	This country founds a colony in Macau that would last 446 years	Portugal	86%
U	1516	Thomas More publishes this book in which he describes an ideal society	Utopia	85%
F	1501	By the beginning of the century, this "ism" of serfs and lords has almost entirely died out in England	{Feudal}ism	82%
E	1529-43	Islamic armies from Somalia try to conquer this neighboring Christian empire	Ethiopian Empire	80%
H	1543	Nicolaus Copernicus proposes this model of the solar system	{Helio}centrism	79%
M	1519-22	This explorer leads the first circumnavigation of the globe, though he would die along the way	Ferdinand Magellan	77%
Q	1534	Jacques Cartier claims this territory for France	Quebec	72%
Y	1562	Sacred Mayan texts are burned by Diego de Landa, bishop of this peninsula	Yucatán	72%
K	1586	The Mughal empire annexes this region on the India/Pakistan border	Kashmir	69%
Z	1551-1558	Conrad Gesner publishes "Historiae animalium" which is considered the beginning of modern ...	Zoology	64%
X	1540	This Jesuit missionary is sent to Asia	St. Francis {Xavier}	57%
C	1533	This Incan capital is captured by Francisco Pizarro	Cusco	56%
T	1521	Hernán Cortés captures this Aztec capital	Tenochtitlan	53%
N	1555	This French apothecary and seer publishes "Les Propheties"	Nostradamus	52%
R	1509-1511	This painter paints "The School of Athens"	Raphael	49%
W	1515	This cardinal is appointed Lord Chancellor of England	Thomas Wolsey	32%